![]() He does a lot of online research, solicits advice from a man ( Liam Neeson) who has broken out of a lot of prisons and descends into the Pittsburgh underworld to obtain a weapon.Įnglish teachers are ordinarily not terrifically good at buying guns from dope dealers, and the deal doesn't go smoothly, shall we say. How he transforms into a man capable of fulfilling them is sort of slipped in. How do you, a bookish English teacher, go about doing that? The movie becomes a prison break procedural, and the steps John takes and the plans he makes are interesting, as such matters often are in the movies. ![]() The deadline is dire, because he plans to break his wife out of the jail in which she's being held. When they all fail, he learns Lara will be transferred to the state penitentiary in three days. His wife's arrest and conviction has triggered a deep outrage. John tries to continue teaching and raising their son. John knows his wife did not - could not - commit the crime.īut the evidence is compelling: She has the opportunity, it appears she had the motive, and the blood on her coat matches the victim's. After a nice night out, their doors burst open the next morning, cops charge in, and Lara is hauled away on murder charges. In the original movie, the wife’s innocence is made clear from the get-go, but Haggis opted for ambiguity in his remake – hence why those final few scenes proving Lara isn’t guilty are so important.Crowe and Banks play John and Lara Brennan, a Pittsburgh couple with a young son, who see their world collapse in 24 hours. Interestingly, the doubt over Lara’s innocence, at least until the ending, is something that deviates from the French film The Next Three Days was based on. The flashback shows that all the evidence against Lara – the blood on her coat, her fingerprints on the murder weapon – was circumstantial and she is in fact innocent. As Lara is about to get in her car, she sees the fire extinguisher and sets it next to a wall not noticing her boss’ body nearby. In the process, a button popped off the junkie’s coat and fell into a storm drain – a piece of evidence missed by detectives that may have proved another person was present that night. ![]() A junkie bludgeoned the boss with a fire extinguisher and stole her purse, bumping into Lara shortly after and leaving a smudge of blood on her coat. The final few scenes, however, address this lingering doubt.ĭuring The Next Three Days’ ending, another flashback reveals exactly what went down the evening Lara’s boss was killed in their workplace parking lot. As a result, when John does pull off the prison break and safely gets his family out of the country before they’re caught, the audience are left wondering whether he’s just helped a murderer escape. Early on the thriller, a flashback shows how Lara could’ve killed her boss and at one point she even ‘confesses’ to John that she did commit the murder. John’s driven, of course, by his unfaltering belief Lara isn’t guilty of murdering her boss but Haggis peppers The Next Three Days with moments that cast doubt over her innocence. Related: Unhinged Ending Explained: What the Final Scene Means As the thriller progresses, John gets into all kinds of shady situations trying to prepare for the prison break – buying a gun, securing fake passports to flee the country and even killing a couple of drug dealers for money. With all appeals to overturn Lara’s sentence exhausted, John is driven to drastic measures and so consults ex-con/escape artist Damon Pennington ( Liam Neeson) to devise a plan to break her out of jail. A few years after Lara’s conviction John is still convinced of his wife’s innocence while almost everybody else – the police, her lawyer, and even John’s mother – think she’s guilty.
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